A professor who was suspended for declining a push to give black students easier exams has sued his school, alleging a breach of contract and other violations. Gordon Klein, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was asked by a a group of non-black students last year to grade his black classmates differently. They wanted him to give them a “no-harm” final exam that “will only benefit students’ grades if taken,” they wrote in an email. The group said the disparate treatment should be given because black classmates “are directly facing the consequences of state-sanctioned violence and graphic content on social media that transcends from Minneapolis to our very own communities in our hometowns and in Westwood.” They appeared to be referencing in part the police killing of George Floyd. Klein refused the request, prompting outcry from people who organized a campaign that alleged he was racist. …